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Are there still miracles happening today? Saints are still being named.I know a few good refutations, but am looking for a few more:Cancer was cured for her! what about everyone else who wasn't?…Continue

I had a friend of mine text me today. He knows I'm an atheist. Here's the conversation:Friend (F): Do you see beauty in things?Me: Of course I do.F: What's the point of seeing beauty? How does that…Continue

He wants to be a jesuit priest. I told him I was an atheist, and he was a little surprised, but he thought it was interesting, and I thought that everything was ok and he was alright with it.I think…Continue

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"As the religously inclined see them then NO, there are no such things as miracles, just extraordinary patterns interpreted by the religously polluted mind to be evidence of a Devine power at work.
Speaking personally; when I look about me I see…"

"Last season Fabrice Muamba, a footballer for Bolton Wanderers to all intents and purposes died on the pitch during a football match. He was clinically dead for 90 minutes or something.
One of the Bolton fans was highly trained in first aid,…"

"I always wonder about Jesus's "Miracles". Why did he cure specific peoples with leprosy? What did he did? "I'll cure you, and you annnnnd YOU! The rest of ya'll gotta wait for science!" Why did he not give…"

Tonight I started a discussion with my religious friend about immortality. I was interested in talking about the problems it would pose, such as population ect, and the solutions and products of those solutions. The conversation soon sidetracked.He asked me what marriage would mean if we all lived for a very long time. I said it would mean the same thing today, depends on the couple. If people are going to stay together, they will. If they want a divorce, they will get one, and that's ok,…See More

"Miraculous don't exist, that is wishful thinking. Cancer being cured is got do with medical science not talking to the floor every night.
Even suggesting such a thing is an insult to human scientific achievement. You should be commending…"

"That reminded me that a few months back a couple missionaries were trying to convince me that a miracle had happen in a poor town far from the city i live.
A mother have just arrived home when she found her daughter lying on the floor and apparently…"

"I planted strawberries, cleaned their beds of weeds, feed them horse manure tea, they grew, feed them more horse manure tea, they blossumed, they grew more, they made lots of nice berries and more baby strawberry plants. 'Miracle' of a…"

"I once heard that Mozart; said of Bach that "He is the one single, unaccountable miracle in the history of music." I don't know: I actually prefer Bartok, especially the quartets. Chuck Berry is pretty good, too."

"Infrequently, cancer does spontaneously remit - likely due to a change in immune tolerance/escape, genetic evolution of the cancer such that it "devolves" to a state of being less viable, misclassification of the "cancer" to…"

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Tonight I started a discussion with my religious friend about immortality. I was interested in talking about the problems it would pose, such as population ect, and the solutions and products of those solutions. The conversation soon sidetracked.

He asked me what marriage would mean if we all lived for a very long time. I said it would mean the same thing today, depends on the couple. If people are going to stay together, they will. If they want a divorce, they will get one,…

Sometimes I wish I didn't know so much about all the reasons god doesn't matter. Just join the masses and agree.

My friend said if he and I ever had a falling out, it would be because of my atheism. Every time it comes up, he always tells me I'm not an atheist, as if it's something impossible to be. It's not that I believe god doesn't exist, I just don't think he matters if he does exist. It's like santa. Santa could exist, he could circle the world at the incredible speed…

I REALLY want to respect these guys. Their awesome, and the Jesuit high school I went to was amazing. My best friend is going to be a Jesuit as well.
Their brilliant people, open minded, thoughtful, skeptical of traditional thought patterns, and very kind. Everything I strive to be as an atheist.
But they dedicate their lives to god. Every time I see one, I get this disappointed feeling, like their wasting their lives, because I know they, of all the religious people in the world, are… Continue

So a few nights ago, I told my best friend, who wants to be a Jesuit Priest, that I was an atheist, and we had a very long discussion about it. He isn't a science guy, and over the next few days, he told his science-minded friend, Will, (whose also my friend) about our discussion. This wasn't a big deal, I don't really care who he tells about it, it's not a huge secret.
Anyways, we all went out for dinner tonight, as kind of a last hurrah since I'm leaving for college and he's got another… Continue